diff --git a/DeepSpeech.py b/DeepSpeech.py
index 27f801b9..96a8ba5c 100755
--- a/DeepSpeech.py
+++ b/DeepSpeech.py
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 LOG_LEVEL_INDEX = sys.argv.index('--log_level') + 1 if '--log_level' in sys.argv else 0
-os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = sys.argv[LOG_LEVEL_INDEX] if 0 < LOG_LEVEL_INDEX < len(sys.argv) else '3'
+DESIRED_LOG_LEVEL = sys.argv[LOG_LEVEL_INDEX] if 0 < LOG_LEVEL_INDEX < len(sys.argv) else '3'
+os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = DESIRED_LOG_LEVEL
 
 import absl.app
 import json
@@ -17,6 +18,13 @@ import tensorflow as tf
 import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tfv1
 import time
 
+tfv1.logging.set_verbosity({
+    '0': tfv1.logging.DEBUG,
+    '1': tfv1.logging.INFO,
+    '2': tfv1.logging.WARN,
+    '3': tfv1.logging.ERROR
+}.get(DESIRED_LOG_LEVEL))
+
 from datetime import datetime
 from ds_ctcdecoder import ctc_beam_search_decoder, Scorer
 from evaluate import evaluate
diff --git a/util/flags.py b/util/flags.py
index 5b5fee0d..6f3d1bea 100644
--- a/util/flags.py
+++ b/util/flags.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ def create_flags():
 
     # Reporting
 
-    f.DEFINE_integer('log_level', 1, 'log level for console logs - 0: INFO, 1: WARN, 2: ERROR, 3: FATAL')
+    f.DEFINE_integer('log_level', 1, 'log level for console logs - 0: DEBUG, 1: INFO, 2: WARN, 3: ERROR')
     f.DEFINE_boolean('show_progressbar', True, 'Show progress for training, validation and testing processes. Log level should be > 0.')
 
     f.DEFINE_boolean('log_placement', False, 'whether to log device placement of the operators to the console')